Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

Simplicity is not so simple to attain.

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

The best types of problems are those that seem harder at first than when you think about it.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

Philosophy is for the few.